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Epidemiology and Prevention of Gallstone Disease pp 37–48Cite as

Physicochemical aspects of cholesterol gallstone formation

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Formation of cholesterol gallstones is a non-biological event caused by changes in the chemical and physical properties of bile which lead to formation of a normally absent solid phase1.

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Salvioli, G., Lugli, R., Pradelli, J.M. (1984). Physicochemical aspects of cholesterol gallstone formation. In: Capocaccia, L., Ricci, G., Angelico, F., Angelico, M., Attili, A.F. (eds) Epidemiology and Prevention of Gallstone Disease. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5606-3_8

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